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Philip told Charles that Mountbatten was dead and it was no good “snivelling” about this fact.

Why not have kept him here among the rest, and made a sneaking, snivelling pickpocket of him at once?

I want none of your pity, rejoined Haywood; keep your snivelling till it be your own turn.

I know what you mean by bishops—rascals like yourself, Kidderminster bishops, factious, snivelling Presbyterians!'

Always poking his blessed 'humanity' ideas down a man's throat and snivelling over people's souls.

I am afraid to go to the Hopes, for there he will follow me, and he is a snivelling, watering thing to make a fuss and spoil all.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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